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 Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: The Chemistry of Brokeback Mountain |
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[quote author=Apollonos link=topic=389.msg3796#msg3796 date=1137402513]
Jack, a sexual predator?!? What nonsense - a blind man could see better than that. Shalit should retire: he's obviously gone senile.
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It is ridiculous to speak of Jack as a sexual predator. If that were so, then
every young man who tries to hit on a woman, or gives them a pick-up
line in a bar, is a sexual predator.
Straight or gay, everyone wants to have some kind of sexual experience.
But, beyond sex, I think this movie is all about our need to be cherished
by someone as a person. Ennis cherishs Jack THE MOST, after Jack's
death, when sex is no longer a possibility.
In a chemical laboratory, a scientist will mix many elements together in
beakers, and there is much heat and smoke and sizzling and bubbling, but
at the very end, there is something left, at the bottom of the beaker, a
product or by-product.
At the end of the movie, what remains at the bottom of everything is the
place in Ennis heart where Jack lives on forever; cherished.
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